VS-37

[1] During its active history, it flew during the Korean and Vietnam Wars[2] as well as operating the last S-2 Trackers inservice with the US Navy in 1975.

[2] While based at NAS Los Alamitos, the squadron was called to active duty to take part in the Korean War.

[4] Between 28 October 1952, and 9 February 1953, the squadron made a deployment to the region with the TBM-3S/W Avenger on board USS Bataan.

[2] The squadron then switched to the USS Badoeng Strait for the rest of their time in the Korean War until 26 May 1953, when they returned home.

[4] In 1965, '67 and finally in 1969, the squadron deployed with the Hornet to the Vietnam War[2] as well as taking part in the recovery of the test spaceflight Apollo 3 on 25 August 1966.

During that deployment, Iraq invaded Kuwait which led to the ship heading to the Persian Gulf as part of Operation Desert Shield.

[4] The following year, they deployed to the Korean peninsula during the 1994 tensions between North and South Korea over the former's Nuclear Program.

On 27 October, several Vikings from the squadron were deployed 450 miles (724 km) northwest of the Kitty Hawk Battlegroup which the latter was west of Kyushu, A PLAN Han class submarine was then detected visually from periscope depth 100 km west of Kyushu shadowing the Kitty Hawk,[10] and was later tracked by their own Vikings,[11] all along the Korean Coast with the aid of sonobouys and Vikings' magnetic anomaly detector (MAD boom).

[14] VS-37 and CVW-15 were both featured in the novel by Joe Weber, 'Honorable Enemies' as being depicted operating from the Kitty Hawk as what happened in early 90s.

An AF-2W of VS-37 in July 1957.
An AF-2W of VS-37 in July 1957.
The last S-2G Tracker in VS-37 with an S-3A Viking of VS-21 the red tails.
The last S-2G Tracker in VS-37 with an S-3A Viking of VS-21 the red tails.
an S-3A Viking of VS-37 assigned to Carrier Air Wing 14 in 1986.
an S-3A Viking of VS-37 assigned to Carrier Air Wing 14 in 1986.
S-3A Viking of VS-37 as part of CVW-15 in 1992 at NAS North Island.
S-3B Viking of VS-37 as part of CVW-15 in 1992 at NAS North Island.